Tremendous Toy Trucks: With Step-by-Step Instructions and Plans for Building 12 Trucks [Paperback]

Les Neufeld (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1, 2001

Simple, functional...and just plain fun: that describes the 12 projects in this collection of classic wood toys. The projects featured here include dump trucks, a tow truck, a flatbed, a semi, a cement truck, logging trucks...you name it. There's a project for every woodworker -- and hours of imaginative play for the lucky kids who will get the trucks once they're made.
-- Designs are varied and durable enough for kids who play hard.
-- Includes more than 300 photos and illustrations.
-- Projects have working parts -- from winches to rolling wheels.

Product Details

• Paperback: 176 pages
• Publisher: Taunton Press (September 1, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1561583995
• ISBN-13: 978-1561583997
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 9 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #91,667 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Tremendous Toy Trucks, July 3, 2003

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Lunazen (Arizona) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Tremendous Toy Trucks: With Step-by-Step Instructions and Plans for Building 12 Trucks (Paperback)

This is an absolute OUTSTANDING book! I'm a home woodworker with a very small shop. I don't have a great number of tools but the great thing about this book is that you don't need many. (Although I did go out and buy a table top bandsaw to simplify a few of the operations)

The plans in this book are very easy to follow and the results are incredible. I've only made one of the trucks, but it turned out great. I spent a few hours for two or three weekends and I just can't say enough about this book.

The author suggests using hardwoods, but I've had some difficulties finding a place to get them. My truck was made mostly with scraps that I had laying about my shop and you would never know. If you like small projects, these make perfect gifts as toys, or as models. I'm also certain that there is a market for the trucks as I've been asked to make several already.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Tremendous, July 27, 2007

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Paul F. Kruss "Kathy's Handyman" (Sydney, Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tremendous Toy Trucks: With Step-by-Step Instructions and Plans for Building 12 Trucks (Paperback)

An easy to use, well documented series of innovative life-like wheeled toys that can all be made with a basic set of woodworking tools and limited woodworking equipment - Drill Press, Disc/Belt Sander and Bandsaw.
Excellent advice on sourcing off-cuts of highly coloured timber to create the effect of tyres, headlights, fuel tanks etc.
If you have a wood lathe many of the wheels and fuel tanks can be turned to add to the enjoyment of making these TOYS - not models.

Highly recommended to all woodworkers as the ideas presented in this book can be applied to all fields of woodworking.

Without question this book should be in every woodworker's library.
Paul

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars HOURS OF FUN, December 17, 2003

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Richard A. Meeuwenberg - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tremendous Toy Trucks: With Step-by-Step Instructions and Plans for Building 12 Trucks (Paperback)

I'VE BUILT 7 OF THE 12 TRUCKS AND THEY ARE FANTASTIC. I PLAN ON DOING 11. PLANS ARE VERY DETAILED AND EASY TO FOLLOW. THERE IS SUPRISINGLY FEW ERRORS FOR THIS TYPE OF BOOK CONSIDERING THE NUMEROUS MEASUREMENTS ETC..IT DOES TAKE A FAIR AMOUNT OF TIME FOR EACH BUT THE RESULTS ARE VERY SATISFYING. YOU WILL NEED AT MINIMUM A BAND SAW, DRILL PRESS AND COMBINATION BELT/DISC SANDER WHICH CAN BE OBTAINED FOR UNDER A HUNDRED DOLLARS. I HAVE NO HESITATION IN GIVING THIS 5 STARS!!!!!